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Titian's Pastoral Scene: A Unique Rendition of Lot and His Daughters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ruth Mellinkoff
Ruth Mellinkoff*
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Abstract

Titian's drawing called Pastoral Scene or Landscape with a Sleeping Nude and Animals is no ordinary landscape, its unordinariness underscored by an unusual combination of elements, which I maintain reveals a new and unique version of Lot and His Daughters. I contend that the large, naked woman in the right foreground is one of Lot's daughters; the two small figures resting or sleeping beneath the trees are Lot and his other daughter; the thatched houses in the middle left represent the little town of Segor where Lot first fled; the sheep represent livestock that Lot brought out of Sodom, as do the boar and goat; the boar and goat, however, also serve as symbols of lust and lechery; and the distant city with burning buildings in the city's right quarter is Sodom. Titian's inventiveness created an iconographic variation of an ancient theme.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1998 , pp. 829 - 863
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1998

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